Embedded hardware / PCB design / vehicle electronics

Matthew McConnell

Electrical engineering student building custom PCBs, embedded systems, and the tooling around them.

Hardware, firmware, and visualization work.

Rendered Formula SAE race car

Formula SAE context

Work shaped by packaging limits, noisy data, and real test days.

Many of these projects come from Sun Devil Motorsports, where clean design has to survive real packaging limits, noisy data, changing requirements, and the pressure of making the car work.

Sun Devil Motorsports

Open hardware development for ASU Formula SAE.

I work on PCB development for Sun Devil Motorsports, ASU's Formula SAE team. This repo shows the ongoing electrical development behind our team's vehicle dynamics data acquisition systems.

Matthew McConnell headshot

About

Electrical engineering student at Arizona State University.

I regularly work on custom hardware projects including PCB design, embedded systems, and prototyping, with a focus on clean design and practical performance. As part of ASU's Sun Devil Motorsports Formula SAE team, I collaborate on real-world engineering challenges that require rigorous testing, iteration, and teamwork.

I am driven by curiosity, attention to detail, and the satisfaction of building things that work well.

Software and skills I use often.

KiCad
Altium Designer
Blender
Substance Painter
GitHub
Visual Studio Code
Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Office
ESP-IDF
PCB layout Schematic design CAN bus ESP32 Sensor systems Embedded programming 3D rendering Rapid prototyping

Contact

Hardware, embedded systems, rendering, and motorsports electronics.

Desktop application

Datasheet Desk v1.0

Choose a setup wizard for a clean Windows installation or the portable package for an extract-and-run copy.

Download Installer Download Portable ZIP